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Re: Emptying Trash with locked items
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Re: Emptying Trash with locked items


  • Subject: Re: Emptying Trash with locked items
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:18:22 -0700

On 10/17/01 10:46 AM, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:

>> tell application "Finder"
>> set the locked of (every file of the entire contents of the trash whose
>> locked is true) to false
>> end tell
>>
>It's a very well-known bug, perhaps the most notorious one in all
>AppleScript. (Michelle seems very attached to 'entire contents', and
>continually recommends it without ever mentioning this bug, forcing me to
>add this correction every single time. ;-) This must be about the 10th
>time.)

I'm aware of th bug, but I figured that with items in the trash, it
wouldn't be a major issue.

--Michelle

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